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    <body><![CDATA[Would you like to hear the only joke I've ever written? Q: &quot;How many Objectivists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?&quot; A: (Pause, then disdainfully) &quot;Uh...one!&quot; And thus it is that so many of us have such a complicated relationship with the work of Ayn Rand; unabashed admirers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2869756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand's characters are almost completely defined by the extent to which they embrace her beliefs. A good guy by definition is someone who agrees with her; a bad guy someone who dares to have a different point of view. For all the lip-service Rand pays to individualism, she brooks no dissent from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3830379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best way to understand Rand's message in this book is to simply close it, and beat yourself over the head with it as hard as possible.  This is essentially what Rand does throughout it's ridiculous length.  I see no reason that a book with a strong lesson can't also have decent character develop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/769426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really makes you take a good hard look at yourself and your behavior, which is why I think a lot of people don't like this book.  It's a lecture and most people don't like to get lectured.  I loved it.  It gave me a good swift kick in the ass.  While I've never been a &quot;looter,&quot; I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14340830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, as much as I detest it, is actually rather useful. Those who have read it tend to be those whom I most especially desire to avoid. Because those who have read it are invariably proud of the fact--ostentatiously so--it is even easier for me to keep my life free and clear of delusional egom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1693521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As Ayn Rand's immortal opus, Atlas Shrugged, stands as a tome to a philosophy that is relevant today as it was in her time. Basically, the major moral theme is that there are two types of people in the world: the Creators and the Leeches.<br/><br/>The Creators are the innovators who use the power ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15266044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Check your premises” the major characters are told.  Well let’s check the premises of Ms. Rand’s story.<br/><br/>The first (false) premise is that there are only a dozen or so people in the country who are worth a damn.  They have well above-average intelligence, have worked hard and have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17391394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Concept: Rand follows the lives of society's movers and shakers (first-handers, in her words, and business men, scientists, inventors, and artists in her novel) as they resist the societal pull to become second-handers and to remain true to themselves and their live's work.  Meanwhile, something...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/704985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to quote Dorothy Parker and say, “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” But if I tried to throw this heavy tome of over 1100 pages of 10pt type, I’d pull a muscle or damage my wall. So, no defenestration of literature for now.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22982019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When my mother gave me this book and said, &quot;I think you will like this; I read it over a vacation in a week when I was your age,&quot; I took one look at the massive text and couldn't believe it.  She also said that I reminded her of the characters....a statement to this day I take pride in.......<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1717626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[... i am reveling in Ayn Rand's words. in woman's &quot;confident, dangerous power.&quot; in disregarding anyone who tells me i &quot;take everything too seriously.&quot; also in the beautiful, misunderstood simplicity of what some would call amorality. i am intrigued by objectivism, but more so by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6218335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn, my dear, dear friend. If only I knew how to pronounce your first name. Anyway. I have read only one of Rand's books, Atlas Shrugged. Since this seems to be generally accepted as her opus magnum, there didn't seem much point to me reading her other books, especially as finding the literary relev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32160029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think reading 500 pages qualifies me to say that this is the worst book EVER WRITTEN. I HATED IT.<br/><br/>*************EDIT****************<br/><br/>After I wrote that, I felt very unsatisfied. Alisa, I didn't finish the book, because I knew that a 70 page radio address was coming and it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8801254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I personally have a deep attachment to this book, and am less confused about why people call me Dagny...I am oft accused of having little emotion or being 'stand offish' because I am direct when making a point.  I must admit, in modern society, it is quite a disadvantage to know philosophy, math, ph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6678509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the most overrated piece of crap of the twentieth century.  It spars only with Dianetics and in its absolute absurdity.<br/><br/>The characters are absolutely idealized 'heroes of capitalism' action figures.  I wonder if Rand imagined some of these great barons of industry coming to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1543769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me damn near forever to get through it (just to arrive at an unsatisfying ending) but I enjoyed the bulk of Rand's writing in Atlas Shrugged.  This was Ayn Rand's magnum opus designed to demonstrate her philosophy &quot;objectivism.&quot;  Long story short this book is about mid-20th-century...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1028761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged is a ferocious defense of the concept of capitalism.  Although Rand depicts capitalism from her objectivist perspective and makes monumental over-exaggerations, she succeeds in demonstrating the importance of such basic social necessities as self sufficiency, personal responsibility, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27551978">more...</a>]]></body>
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